Suicides and Other Jokers

Evgeny Chizhov — a prose writer, two-time finalist of the "Big Book" award, finalist of the "NOS" award and winner of the "Yasnaya Polyana" award ("Collector of Paradise"), laureate of the "Wreath" award of the Union of Writers of Moscow... ("Translation from the Interlinear"). The dissimilar characters in Evgeny Chizhov's stories are united by their unchanging readiness for experiments on themselves in search of their own, non-borrowed truths, their ease in dealing with life and death and the recklessness with which they are capable of crossing the border between them. Captivated by this ease, the author tells the stories of his heroes, sometimes growing into elaborate metaphors of the catastrophes of our time, and sometimes intersecting with his own, and then the narrative takes on an autobiographical character. "Muscovite Evgeny Chizhov writes novels that are commonly referred to as 'smart': and indeed, a graduate of the law faculty of Moscow State University, an intellectual and a dreamer in his creations clearly does not expect a mass audience. The greater his success in intellectual circles, and the writer's new book has already caused delight among the 'advanced' public." Lydia Maslova ("Izvestia")